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Major Edit

Hi all, I'm working on a major edit for this page. It seems to me that a lot of this article can be made a little more clear, so I'm taking a go at it. I have already changed a few sections. It will probably take me a couple days to finish everything, so let me know what you think as time progresses.

Partition Section

This section is a mess. I think that we should just find the fastest way to partition the hard drive, with a preference to tools on the Arch Linux install disk (as long as the work). Having multiple ways of creating the partitions seems confusing. I recommend using parted as it is part of Arch and can handle GPT format hard drives. --Arcanazar 13:36, 17 July 2009 (EDT)

RE

yes i think
i think also that we can completely delete triple boot section and even the dual boot section redirecting users who wants dual boot to another guide like Ubuntu
i think this because Archlinux users are experience users and precisely for this we can write a short partition section

new macbook note

Why don't we move this page to one called "Apple" or something similar. It doesn't matter whether you're installing on a MacBook/Pro, Mac Mini, etc. except for drivers, which are easily listed on one page. At the very least, the new MacBook page should be merged with this one. We shouldn't have to make a new page each time a new model comes out.

I'd like some new wiki for the 2009 MBP 5.5, but don't know where to start. On these pages? I agree we don't need a new wiki for every model coming out. As far as the "Apple" page, I don't have an opinion.

The iSight installation wouldn't work for me. I had to do it manually. It's easy:
sudo ift-extract -a /media/MacOSX//System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleUSBVideoSupport

Quirks/tweaks

After (finally) getting my new MacBook Pro (5,3) to dual-boot OSX and Arch, I thought I'd share my findings. I added the reboot quirk and module tweaks to the Installation section, and I moved the note about using rEFIt to fix the partition table up in the article.

My experience with rEFIt was that if I adjusted the table after installing GRUB (i.e. after finishing the Arch install process), the Mac wouldn't correcly recognize the boot partition, and I'd get an "Operating system not found" or similar error. If I reinstalled GRUB on the partition, it would then work. However, when I used rEFIt between partitioning and installing, everything worked on the first go.

As for the modules, I was attempting to use LUKS for disk encryption, but when I got to the password prompt, the computer appeared to freeze. I discovered this was actually just because it wasn't accepting keyboard input, and I narrowed down which modules needed to be present for it to work. Since I rebooted a lot during this process, I found it nice when I could get the reboot command to work properly too.

Note: I don't know if adjusting MODULES is the "right" solution, or if there's a bug with the udev hook that needs to be filed. If someone more acquainted with mkinitcpio lore could fill me in, I'd appreciate it!